Overwatch: Behind the InspirationAfter yesterday's gameplay and overview session about Overwatch, Blizzard has another panel about the inspiration behind Overwatch along with why it exists. Today we're covering the panel where Blizzard talks to Jeff Chamberlain, Chris Metzen, Bill Petras, and Arnold Tsang.

BlizzCon 2014 Contest

Every comment you leave on any BlizzCon 2014 post is entering you to win prizes like Carved Ogre Idol. Read more here--we have several awesome prizes to give out all weekend.

WoD: Items, Class & Design ChangesBlizzCon 2014 has been awesome so far and now it's time for the Warlords of Draenor panel! We'll highlight what they talk about below and be sure to cover any relevant, new information.

BlizzCon 2014 Contest

Every comment you leave on any BlizzCon 2014 post is entering you to win prizes like Carved Ogre Idol. Read more here--we have several awesome prizes to give out all weekend.

We've heard so much about the BlizzCon movie over the past few years and now's the time to hear even more. Get ready for the BlizzCon movie panel where we'll hear about the upcoming movie right from the source.

BlizzCon 2014 Contest

Every comment you leave on any BlizzCon 2014 post is entering you to win prizes like Carved Ogre Idol. Read more here--we have several awesome prizes to give out all weekend.

Liveblog

Everyone on staff is a huge Warcraft fan--they've played old school Warcraft, lost days of their lives to World of Warcraft.

Warcraft has so many great characters and story arcs which made it hard to actually find a story of a suitable length for a movie.

Original movie was very Alliance-biased, put Orcs in a more negative light. It was important this time for them to show both heroes and the conflict.

Feels like a live action movie, the camera follows around from their perspective. The VFX for Orcs were hard to nail down, they needed them to be as genuine as humans. They used a lot of motion capture.

They built sets, locations.

They created a training session for people to become Orcs--actors had to learn how to become a 500lb creature, nuanced Orcs. Were they noble Orcs or aggressive ones?

They didn't want to do motion capture for Garona.

One of the actors--Robert Kazinsky--actually had over 500 days /played, Death's Demise, and more. He was in a top 100 World guild!

Took months of training to learn motion capture. The actors also had to learn how to walk differently, get more in touch with their Orc side.

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Overwatch: What We KnowBlizzCon 2014 is off to a huge start with tons of news. Overwatch was announced and there's about to be a detailed panel explaining everything about their new title. We'll be liveblogging that as well as covering all the information it brings! For now, though, we have the press pack to share with you and everything we've learned so far.

BlizzCon 2014 Contest

Every comment you leave on any BlizzCon 2014 post is entering you to win prizes like Carved Ogre Idol. Read more here--we have several awesome prizes to give out all weekend.

Overwatch Characters

There are several complete characters already shown in the trailer and on the Overwatch site. Here are their gameplay videos to show the differences in each class:

We have our team at BlizzCon down in Anaheim and some of us are watching the stream at home. We're bringing you the latest and liveblogging the opening ceremony plus the World of Warcraft, Diablo III, Hearthstone, and Heroes of the Storm panels. Be ready to hear tons of news about your favorite titles--and maybe something a little extra.

Make sure to join in the discussion here in this post as if you're watching along on the stream! We're even holding an awesome contest!

BlizzCon 2014 Contest

Every comment you leave on any BlizzCon 2014 post is entering you to win prizes like Carved Ogre Idol. Read more here--we have several awesome prizes to give out all weekend.

BlizzCon 2014 is upon us and what would it be without a huge giveaway?

Okay, we get it, it'd still be pretty epic. It's BlizzCon after all. But we have a bunch of prizes to give out anyway to add to the greatness that is BlizzCon! For the weekend of BlizzCon and the following days after, we're giving away tons of prizes from WoW TCG Loot--from the rarest costume of them all Carved Ogre Idol to Soul-Trader Beacon we've got lots to give to our community.

The best part? It's easy to enter. All you have to do is leave quality comments on BlizzCon 2014 coverage posts to be entered to win free loot.

How to Win

You can find eligible posts through our BlizzCon portal page or by browsing Wowhead News. One comment is one entry and there is no limit to the amount of comments allowed. Keep in mind that comments must be quality--that means no spam or one liners, we're looking for actual interaction and we will disqualify people who spam irrelevant comments.

The giveaway ends on November 12, 2014 at 10AM PDT so be quick with your comments!

It's nearly time for Warlords of Draenor and we have some awesome prizes to celebrate. Throughout this week and the beginning of next, we have ten copies of the upcoming expansion to give out to our community--the best part? They come with their very own Faerie Dragon plushie!

To celebrate the launch of Hearthstone's Curse of Naxxramas, we're doing a giant giveaway here at Wowhead. You wouldn't want to adventure into Naxxramas alone and now you don't have to--you can take an iPad mini with you! We have two iPad minis, two Hearthstone pillows, and thirty-seven $20 Battle.net cards to win along with thirty-seven Warlords of Draenor beta keys. Keep on reading to find out how to win some epic loot!

Social Media Giveaway

Thanks to the folks at Lockerdome, we'll be giving out prizes dependent on participation! We'll be giving away:

2x Grand Prizes: An iPad mini, a Hearthstone pillow, a $20 Battle.net card, and a Warlords of Draenor beta key

The first time you enter the giveaway using the widget, you get a total of five maximum possible entires. Each action gives you an entry into our giveaway and you can use the widget to check your progress and see if you've accomplished all five.

If you've already entered every possible way via the widget, you can keep earning entries on later days. You can use the widget to tweet and earn TWO additional entries per day.

Comment to Win Addition

We have an additional ten $20 Battle.net cards paired with ten Warlords of Draenor beta keys to hand out to you guys!

To enter to win these ten cards and keys, all you have to do is leave a comment in this post telling us your favorite boss in Naxxramas is.

Tell us your favorite Naxxramas boss in this post in order to be entered to win!

You'll also earn an additional sixth entry into our overall giveaway for the iPads and remaining $20 Battle.net cards. We decided to split it up this way to let our users get the Wowhead achievement for participating in contests--plus this way, those without social media accounts can get an entry!

Rules & Disclaimer

The giveaway ends at 11:59AM PDT on 08/04/2014.

Participants may have up to six entries. Participants may only win one prize.

This giveaway is open to participants from any location where giveaways are allowed--yes, we'll do international shipping!

Spring is in the air and Noblegarden is coming to Azeroth. For the fourth consecutive year, it's coming to Wowhead as well! We've teamed up with our friends at WoW TCG Loot and bought tons of prizes on our own to create a Brightly Colored Egg hunt you'll remember.

So grab your Egg Basket and hop around Wowhead's database of a backyard if you want to win!

The contest begins on April 20th, 2014 and ends on April 29th, 2014. Participants will have ten possible chances to enter the drawing.

Prizes

How to Win

So how do you play? The Wowhead community team has hidden ten Brightly Colored Eggs in our database and it's up to you to find them before the holiday week is over. We'll provide you the clues, but you'll have to do the rest of the sleuthing on your own.

Diablo III's expansion, Reaper of Souls, is almost upon us--we recently had a giant giveaway for free copies of the expansion and it was a huge success. To celebrate even further for this upcoming release, we've teamed up with Blizzard to give our community all the newest information by creating a giant content patch!

To help promote our guide, this time around, we're holding a launch contest for dozens of awesome prizes including a brand new PC. All you have to do is reply to this thread with what your favorite Diablo character is. It's that simple.

This giveaway ends at 11:59PM PDT on March 28, 2014 so be sure to enter quickly.

The Prizes

Diablo III's expansion, Reaper of Souls, is almost upon us--and we've teamed up with Blizzard to give our community all the newest information by creating a giant content patch!

To make it even sweeter, we're giving away twenty digital copies of Reaper of Souls Collector's Editions right here in this thread. All you have to do is tell us what your favorite class is in Diablo III to be entered to win--it's that simple!

This giveaway ends at 11:59AM PDT on March 7, 2014 so be sure to enter quickly.